SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A street gang member was sentenced today to more than seven years in prison for conspiring with other gang members to use violence to control their drug trade. U.S. District Judge Norman Mordue sentenced Amadis Hunter, 25, of Syracuse, to 89 months in prison for his role in the Bricktown gang.

As part of his guilty plea, Hunter admitted the gang maintained a geographic territory in which only gang members could sell crack cocaine, cocaine and marijuana; that the gang got drugs from suppliers in New York City; and that gang members routinely used firearms.

Hunter was among 13 Bricktown gang members arrested in April 2011 by the Syracuse Gang Violence Task Force under the Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, a law designed to break up organized crime syndicates.